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adespoton ,

Essentially, sovcits don’t understand how the legal system works and think judges are bound by the sovcit’s personal interpretation of the literal text. They take this right down to the constitution and common law, ignoring precedent and case law.

adespoton ,

It’s missing my clique… BSD Fans.

adespoton , (edited )

Does he realize the sheer volume of liberal Christians out there?

adespoton ,

Lots of ‘em. You just hear from the ones who like to call attention to themselves.

adespoton ,

We already knew he was planning to remove democracy. I’m hoping that his call to vote will get all the liberal Christians to vote too, specifically to prevent him from eliminating democracy.

adespoton ,

Here’s a deadnaming example that should resonate with conservative women…

You get married and take your husband’s name, but your parents insist on continuing to call you by your maiden name.

adespoton ,

I love that phrase. Because it lets me decide what’s needful. Sometimes it’s my lunch or catching up on the news.

adespoton ,

He wasn’t actually left handed!

Would being a Linux "power user" increase my chances of getting a job in IT/tech?

I’m trying to get a job in IT that will (hopefully) pay more than a usual 9 to 5. I’m been daily driving Linux exclusively for about 2 1/2 years now and I’m trying to improve my skills to the point that I could be considered a so-called “power user.” My question is this: will this increase my hiring chances...

adespoton ,

When I got into IT, I had years of experience with Mac OS, UNIX, a bit of IRIX and VMS, BSD and even a bit of Linux.

And then I spent 10 years mostly managing a Windows shop. I still ran OpenBSD on the internal support servers, but had to support a full Microsoft stack for anything customer-facing.

What will increase your hiring chances is being adaptable and having a portfolio of success stories to reference during interviews.

adespoton ,

I just came here to say stuffit.

adespoton ,

You know… the other instances no longer have feat.

adespoton ,

I didn’t realize that… songs from the 80s, or newer content?

adespoton ,

Did they discover it in online news articles from 6 years ago?

adespoton ,

The new bit is essentially that a bunch of vendors have been using test keys in production hardware, mostly enterprise hardware, and nobody has implemented key clustering or rotation like the original design spec recommended.

Beyond that, the older news is the legitimate production key compromise, stored online behind a four character password. But this one’s not as big an issue as most of the implicated hardware is already EOL and no longer in use.

adespoton ,

No stupid questions, but repeatedly asking variations of the same question referencing your ban from reddit might catch up with you eventually.

adespoton ,

The fork lift is just doing its job….

adespoton ,

Wow… I didn’t realize he was still mobile! He left Greenpeace a LONG time ago.

adespoton ,

Great… Trump endorses Harris too! Maybe he can get the MAGA crowd to vote for her as well….

adespoton ,

The Bible contains two summaries of the ten commandments. Unsurprisingly, what Louisiana wants to put up on a poster is not a literal translation of either of them. Catholics tend to use an interpretation that doesn’t include “no graven images.”

Two tellings of the Ten Commandments in the Bible are Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:1-21.

Note that there’s stuff in there for many Catholics to be unhappy about (carved images, taking the lord’s name in vain) and many protestants (telling children about adultery, observing the sabbath, not coveting, not bearing false witness).

But those commandments are a small part of the Jewish Mosaic law; Christians are supposed to override that with “love God” and “love the people around you, even those who your social clique shuns” along with “it’s not enough to not do the commandments; if you catch yourself contemplating breaking them in your head, stop doing it.”

adespoton ,

Indeed. This is giving me distinctly Boeing vibes.

adespoton ,

There’s already an Old Zealand. It’s an island in Denmark.

adespoton ,

Aside from the text clarification, this is also only the US version of Wikipedia.

What worries me though is that most videos linked on Wikipedia are hosted on YouTube. That’s a pretty dangerous choke point.

Windows 11 is nagging users to try OneDrive to "fully backup" your PC (www.windowslatest.com)

Windows 11 and Windows 10 were recently updated with “Windows Backup”, which has now become a system app. While the feature initially appeared as “optional” or something that could be easily dismissed, Microsoft is slowly getting aggressive with its new OneDrive backup campaign on Windows 11....

adespoton ,

Because iCloud was a smashing success for Apple when they used this technique?

At least iOS and macOS don’t keep on asking you after you say no like Windows does though. At least not until you change something in your iCloud configuration.

adespoton ,

I don’t think you understand Lemmy or moderation.

If your instance bans you, it’s because you did something to breach their terms. Sign up for a new instance and read the terms. And then read the terms of any instance whose communities you subscribe to, and when in that community, follow THOSE terms AND your home instance’s terms.

Even Reddit doesn’t ban people for the words they use. Subreddits sometimes do.

What any community bans you for is how you behave. Context and actions over time matter.

adespoton ,

It’s the EU… for any issue, it has at least three positions.

adespoton ,

Marx also wasn’t Marxist; that distinction belonged to Engels & co.

adespoton ,

That bit of history is generally where the misuse of the term entered the western world.

The issued fatwa was an interpretation of law that concluded his assassination was legal and even expected punishment under the law. But the phrase then came to be used in the west when Islamic religious law prompted anyone to take an illegal/extremist action in the west.

It would be like a southern baptist pastor calling for a lynching or the electric chair on moral grounds.

adespoton ,

The crazy thing to me is that this is the conclusion I came to around 30 years ago, based on evidence that was already present in research available at the time.

adespoton ,

The disturbing thing to me is… why wasn’t Norway included?

adespoton ,

What’s changed is people’s outspokenness about their political views.

The American Left, on average, would be considered well in the middle of the right in most of the world. This has resulted in “far left” in the US encompassing everything from global centrism to far left extremism. As such, using the term is pretty pointless without adding enough context so others know what is included.

adespoton ,

President Biden in a public statement called the incident “sick.”

“That such a thing could happen in this country is totally bogus dude.”

adespoton ,

So… they’re holding the hostage deal hostage?

adespoton ,

Executives need to present company forecasts to shareholders at annual business meetings. If they mess up the forecast so the business plan doesn’t match the reality, they scramble to make the books balance somehow — the easiest place to do this is by cutting staff so that expenditures line up with earnings. Modern accounting means that even though they still have payouts to employees, they can count this in a separate loss bucket so that the bottom line item that investors watch still comes out where they “predicted” it would, which props up the stock price, making investors happy and preventing them from replacing the executives.

adespoton ,

Probably happening on Lemmy too.

adespoton ,

The world isn’t going to pay attention.

The article’s worth reading though.

adespoton ,

Why not display the original from the Torah? In the original Hebrew language?

Or at least display all three versions as written in the Protestant Bible.

Seems kind of silly though; it would make much more sense for Christians to display Deuteronomy 6:4-15, since that’s what Jesus stated was the greatest commandment.

adespoton ,

If the law goes through, there’s an obvious solution: display it alongside its equivalents. I bet that would be very educational for a lot of people.

adespoton ,

It obviously was never going to be a long-term relationship then.

adespoton ,

It’s the sleeping dogs that lie….

adespoton ,

How many fingers do the dogs have?

adespoton ,

Hopefully the rest of the world can follow their sodium.

adespoton ,

The difference is that my ad blocker is quick and painless to set up, where TiVo involved some capital and planning.

adespoton ,

I remember when I had to set my VCR to record a program I wanted to watch; if YouTube gets that bad, I’ll just do the same thing; pre-record the video stream and skip the commercials.

adespoton ,

Well, I’d say that trust in the police and the 911 system is also at an all-time low, which could result in fewer crimes being reported to them.

Not that I think it’s actually a significant enough amount to account for the notable reported decrease, but you asked….

adespoton ,

Basically, yes.

adespoton ,

So… Joe Biden is America’s Thin Blue Line?

Recommendation Algorithms & Advertising - Where do you draw the line?

I think recommendation algorithms and advertising are separate things, however think with defaults and when it comes to what specific data is collected, where do you draw the line? Absolutely no recommendations at all based on an algorithm? Would you say using your ‘like’ history to recommend you more videos is okay? What...

adespoton ,

If recommendations are being provided to me as a service and the algorithm that goes into it is relatively transparent, I have no issues.

If advertising is based on the value an advertiser sees in the product being advertised, I have no problem.

If I’m the product being sold or an ad distribution network is involved, I’ve got a problem.

Canada expresses concern about human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region, groups urge U.N. human rights chief to take more action over "documented abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslims" (www.reuters.com)

Canada’s ambassador to Beijing visited the region of Xinjiang last week and expressed concerns about human rights violations directly to local leaders, the Canadian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday....

adespoton ,

But wait… didn’t China say the re-education camps were a hoax, that Muslims have the same rights as everyone else in China, and that any issues they’d been having had already been resolved?

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